![GASLIGHT DISTRICT](/images/headline/5014.png) Sleaze imprint offers illuminating cover art. ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_01.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/gaslight_district_20.jpg)
Several days ago we said we'd revisit whoever painted this cover with an eye toward determining if they were really any good. At a glance these fronts from sleaze imprint Gaslight Books don't compare to the many beautiful efforts from Midwood or Gold Medal, but only at a glance. There's a distinctive style here, a certain beauty of form and color, an ease of execution like sketches brought to life. All are uncredited, but all are by the same artist, who hasn't gotten their due, in our opinion, for taking cover art in this unusual direction. Alternatively, we could simply be high. But give these a close look, revisit last week's cover, check the example we shared several years ago, and see what you think.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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